The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-19
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lining words; yet sometimes it cannot
help us. Some ideas are too simple
to be simpliGed; some are too complex
Sometimes we cannot understand the
name because we have DO acquain-
tance with things represented, The
last mentioned condition is most often
the cause of the misco :ception of the
word scholar. To tho entirely igno
rant it means man that can read
and write; to the somewhat better i'll
formed, it means the teacher who has
charge of the village school; to most
persons, it means a man who, by
some accident or misnoner, has been
dubbed professor; while to those
privileged persons who have been
brought into contact with a really
great scholar, this name is indicative
of greatness. of aim, loftiness of soul
aid a martyr-like devotion to the
truth. The scholar is peculiar spe-
cles of the ge',us homo, which is espe-
cially to be met with in Europe-seems
to flo irish with most abundance in
Germany, but which is rarely found
in America.
The conditions of our life are not
favorable to the development of the
! true scholar. There is but little pre-
MUM put on, truly scholarly work. A
great pressure is brought to bear on
the professor, even in our best insti-
tutions, to drive them to that which
is popular. All the intellectual pabu-
lum called for III the shape of highly
seasoned articles that tickle rather
than noulish. 70 attain high educa-
tional culture by near cuts, Ameri-
cans have spent an amount of enginu-
ity altogether sufficient to haze reach
ed the desired goal by the one slow
and proper method, Constantly new
methods Of study are developed and
incorporated in some book. Ger
man Taught by letter Perfectly"
''Frenuh Mastered in Ten Lessons"
''SiX Weeks Preparation for Caesar"
are some of our intellectual nostr,,ms..
, Normal colleges and summer schools
are also capaple of injuring the cause
of true education beyond measure.
Normal idea is good one. Podagoe
les should be represented IN every
university, and every teacher ought
to know something of the history and
scichco of teaching; but whenever this
comes to be the predominant feature,
WncueTer method is substituted for
knowledge, most terrible damage is
Wrought. Give me the man first Of
all who knows what he processes to
tcSch,. and a method VII ccl tg.in'y be
! found. Pent up water, if t,,2cv arc
! living, will surely Anh some outlet.
Simmer schools may lie tIle occasion,
of much good. To see the 1aitv in
great numbers spending their yaca-
ti0n st S0nN quiet moWtt;tfil or lax,
, side retreat, where the mind may
reap lAcasUre and profit as we'll as the
booty, IS Gladdening sight, and in
/ dicatcH II growing, wholesome, intel
l"ctuAN appetite; but wkeu we must
look to the Summer schools to fur
nish teachers of every rudimentary
instruction in the ordinary branches,
1t Is hsad commentary or our scholar
ship How criminally deficient are
ON schools and teachers! But we
are wandering; to return to our NUT
ton.
a great scholar may be known bv
two tests First he is man of thor
ough Information. He knows his own
! department we'll, it's history and It's
! present status, the lines along which
development has proceeded and the
work still to be accomplished The
acquisition of actual knowledge is bv
many given II place altogetl1or too
subordinate. We often excuse the
pauclty of facts IN our heads by the
multitude Of books on our Shelves
To the teacher, however, the mastery
OF the subject he teaches is of prime
impOrtancc. Instruction must be
given, not from text books, but from
the heart and mind of the instructor.
Truth must be ever dispensed, not
from aPrinted page, held in the hand,
but from burning soul, as part and
parcel of its own being. In the sec.
ond place, great scholar is an inves-
ti&ator. He uses his knowledge of
facts to get atmoro facts. To be sue
ccssful as All Investigator is the high.
est tost of scholarship and demands
usually most favorable conditions.
No man is prepared to inveitigate
any subject until he has mastered ali
that has been written about that sao.
Jeot. Consequently, all great investi-
cations are done undor the shadow
Of great libraries, In most of our
American colleges the help thus offer